{"id":12038,"date":"2012-08-23T09:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12038"},"modified":"2012-08-23T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:25:56","slug":"nypd-if-your-muslim-you-have-no-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=12038","title":{"rendered":"NYPD: ‘if your Muslim you have no rights”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Police Department infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames.<\/em><\/p>\n

Spying on Muslims led to no leads or terror cases: NYPD<\/strong>
\n21 August, 2012 – Al Arabiya News – By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO – Associated Press<\/p>\n

In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department\u2019s secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday.<\/p>\n

The Demographics Unit is at the heart of a police spying program, built with help from the CIA, which assembled databases on where Muslims lived, shopped, worked and prayed. Police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames.<\/p>\n

Police hoped the Demographics Unit would serve as an early warning system for terrorism. And if police ever got a tip about, say, an Afghan terrorist in the city, they\u2019d know where he was likely to rent a room, buy groceries and watch sports.<\/p>\n

But in a June 28 deposition as part of a longstanding federal civil rights case, Assistant Chief Thomas Galati said none of the conversations the officers overheard ever led to a case.<\/p>\n

\u201cRelated to Demographics,\u201d Galati testified that information that has come in \u201chas not commenced an investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYPD is the largest police department in the nation and Mayor Michael Bloomberg has held up its counterterrorism tactics as a model for the rest of the country. After The Associated Press began reporting on those tactics last year, supporters argued that the Demographics Unit was central to keeping the city safe. Galati testified that it was an important tool, but conceded it had not generated any leads.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never made a lead from rhetoric that came from a Demographics report, and I\u2019m here since 2006,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t recall other ones prior to my arrival. Again, that\u2019s always a possibility. I am not aware of any.\u201d<\/p>\n

Galati, the commanding officer of the NYPD Intelligence Division, offered the first official look at the Demographics Unit, which the NYPD denied ever existed when it was revealed by the AP last year. He described how police gather information on people even when there is no evidence of wrongdoing, simply because of their ethnicity and native language. …more<\/a><\/p>\n

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The New York Police Department infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and catalogued every Muslim in New York who adopted new, Americanized surnames. Spying on Muslims led to no leads or terror cases: NYPD 21 August, 2012 – Al Arabiya News – By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO – Associated Press more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[3408],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12038\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}